[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] usertools: fix input handling in telemetry script

[Van Haaren, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sirvys, Andrius
> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:38 PM
> To: Laatz, Kevin <kevin.laatz at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; stable at dpdk.org; Van Haaren, Harry
> <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; Ferriter, Cian <cian.ferriter at intel.com>;
> Lipiec, Herakliusz <herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com>; Sirvys, Andrius
> <andrius.sirvys at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3] usertools: fix input handling in telemetry script
> 
> This commit removes the unnecesarry ast.literal_eval() function call
> from the input handling, which now relies just on raw_input() to get
> its input.
> 
> Fixes: 53f293c9a783 ("usertools: replace unsafe input function")
> Cc: andrius.sirvys at intel.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrius Sirvys <andrius.sirvys at intel.com>
> ---
> v2: Removed unnecessary comments
> v3: Reduced scope of changes only to required Python 2 fix
> 
> Please note that the dpdk-telemetry-client.py script has a number of
> issues with Python3 support. Fixing Python3 support is being deferred
> to DPDK 19.11 release.

Thanks for the patch re-spin Andrius. This is the smallest change possible
to fix the current issue, and I recommend including in 19.08 release.

Agree the Python3 support requires larger refactoring, which should be
undertaken for 19.11.

Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>